R A F R C A F Bombers Hit Four German Cities
Allied air raids pound Mannheim Ludwigshafen Darmstadt Aachen Nantes and Paris with a heavy bomber push. Canadian crews and pilots from coast to coast join the raid, reporting 32 bombers missing and 17 tons per minute delivered against Mannheim Ludwigshafen. Intruder operations claim several enemy planes shot down.
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Mannheim-Ludwigshafen
Gladwin Hill
Associated Press
A.P
R.A.F.-R.C.A.F
Darmstadt
Mannheim
Aachen
Cologne
R.C.A.F
Canada
Germany
Rhine
Nekar
Hamburg
Hanover
NANTES
Atlantic
France
Vichy radio
Paris
Magasin du Midi
air ministry
Britain
England
ALAN RANDAL
LONDON
C.P. Cable
R.AF
Flt
Mr. Beveridge
Montreal
McGill University
FC. J
Vancouver
Walter Patton
Calgary
Fr. Lit. M Morrison
Winnipeg
Allied 5th Army renews assault toward Naples in Italy
Allied 5th Army launched a full scale offensive against German mountain positions guarding the Naples route. British and American troops from Salerno advanced amid heavy fire as Corsica bombardment continued. Oliveto Citra and Matera were captured, along with Altamura, with Montgomery’s 8th Army inching toward Taranto. Allied air and sea actions also struck in Albania and northern Italy, while civilians in Naples faced German reprisals as fighting persisted.
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Naples
Corsica
Valona Harbor
Albania
Eighth Army
NORTH AFRICA
5th Army
Valona
Mark Clark
United States
Salerno
Oliveto-Citra
Matera
Taranto
Altamura
Sir Bernard Montgomery
8th Army
Italy
Palermo
United States office of war information
Clark
Canada to issue Victory Loan in two maturities
Finance Minister Isley announced the Fifth Victory Loan will open October 18 with a minimum objective of 1.2 billion dollars. It will have two maturities, a 15 year and two month issue and a three year and six month issue, with 3 percent bonds maturing January 1, 1959 and 130 percent priced bonds maturing May 1, 1947. Both dated November 1, 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OSTAWA
Isley
Canada
Left Hand Corner questions quoted remarks on Hoover and others
A fragmented column comments that quotation attribution often misleads readers. It notes Henry Wallace's milk remark misattribution to Hoover and recalls Sir John Stuart and Maida Vale connections, with a tease for continuation on page 33.
R. J. Thomas Held On Union Charge
Penly Texas September 24 R J Thomas president of the United Automobile Workers and vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations was arrested Thursday night and charged with violating the Texas law requiring license from the secretary of state for union organizers He posted a $400 bond before Justice of the Peace R Zierlein.
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PENLY
Tex
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
secretary of state
Thomas
Justice of the Peace
R. Zierlein
Swift Work In Corsica
Allied forces advance on Corsica as German withdrawal continues. Bonifacio and Porto Vecchio have been occupied while RAF planes foil aerial evacuations. Bastia nearby is damaged by air raids. several ammo depots and tanks awaiting embarkation were destroyed. De Gaulle touts Corsician support and places the National Liberation Committee above Corsican officials.
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North Africa
Corsica
Bonifacio
Porto Vecchio
Bastia
RAF Beaufighters
Charles de Gaulle
Prencit Committee of National Liberation
Frances
United Nations
Finschhafen Menaced In New Guinea Drive
Australians who landed from the sea six miles north of Finschhafen New Guinea on Wednesday fight to hold positions as a new Allied push presses inland in the southwest Pacific amid heavy fighting and rising concern over the peril to the town and surrounding area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
CLEN CLEMENTS
Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
Lae
Salamaua
Edouard Herriot Reported Dead
The Finnish radio citing Svenska Dagbladet said Herriot died in a sanatorium in the south of Tranes, reported by Berlin dispatches. Nazi announcements earlier in September said he had fallen ill and was confined. The rest of the report details Allied actions in the Pacific, including landings at Finschhafen and related air and naval engagements as MacArthur advances.
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NEW YORK
Svenska Dagbladet
Edouard Herriot
Tranes
United States
Ssenska Dagblacht
Uncle Sam's Growing Air Power
Washington dispatch reports a touring group of foreign correspondents visiting U S Army efforts in bomber production design and cadet training. It highlights Willow Run near Detroit producing Liberator bombers, Dayton Wight Ticket designs, Maxwell Field training thousands of cadets, and Columbia Air Base bombing training. The piece notes many plants expanding air power, with several factories building Liberators and other aircraft.
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CHESTER A. BLOOM
Washington
WASHINGTON, DC
New York
Henry Ferda
Willow Run
Detroit
Dayton
Ohio
amoa
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Alabama
Paiapion
Columbia Air Base
South Carolina
imperial
fugantic
United
Wilow Run
Consolidated California
fighters, light
Nazis Claim 21 Sinkings
London report cites Berlin radio claiming German submarines sank 12 destroyers and nine merchant ships totaling 45 600 tons in a heavily escorted Allied convoy en route to America. Churchill had said Allies had not lost a ship in four months, a fact later unofficially confirmed.
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LONDON
C.P.1
Berlin
America
Cernan
Associated Press
Church
house of commons
Churchill
north Atlantic
Italian Warships Reach U S Base Amid War News
A.P. dispatch reports 41 Italian warships entering a U S Mediterranean base, part of Italy's fleet sent to Allied ports. The escorting force has attacked Germans, sinking nine enemy ships, with crews fighting through fire to follow Admiral Amedo Nomis Di Pollon. Separately, Soviet forces reach the Dnieper in force near Novomoskovsk, advancing toward Kremenchug as German resistance stiffens along a broad 300 mile front.
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Italy
MEDITERRANEAN
Amedo Nomis Di Pollon
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
OSCOW
Red army
Dnieper
Red Star
Novomoskovsk
Ukraine
Poltava
KIEV
Novomosovsk
great river
Kremenchug
Wier
King Silent On Election
Ottawa Sevot 24 Prime Minister Mackenzie King avoided confirming any plan for a federal election after a Liberal caucus session. He denied saying an election would not occur this year while noting the caucus drawn near 200 MPs and senators would continue discussions and reshaping reorganizations into Monday.
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OTTAWA
Sevot
Mackenzie King
Liberal party
King
National Liberal Federation
Mussolini's new government to operate from southern Germany
New republican fascist government under Benito Mussolini announced to be temporarily based in southern Germany due to war hazards in Italy. Berlin radio said Mussolini would serve as foreign minister and Marshal Rodolfo Grassani named defence minister amid a reported new cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW YORK
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Berlin
Lotbimere Named CBC Representative for Toronto
Lotbimere appointed CBC representative to lease London and Hertiv for CBC national program. He will prepare duties at CBC offices in Toronto. His family is well known in Quebec.
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TORONTO
Lotbimere
Britis Broadcasting Corporation
London -hertiv
CBC
Quevec
Russian Offensive Gains In Kuban Drive As Dnieper Pushes
News bulletins report Soviet forces advancing up to twelve miles in the Dnieper region toward the Kuban peninsula. Bengal faces famine with over a million fed daily. Calcutta endures sevenfold starvations amid food shortages. Gibraltar sees unusual naval activity with merchant ships and carriers. American bombers strike Evrely Fauville air base near Paris. Korely falls seven miles northeast of Smolensk as Soviets press flanks. Admiral Standley returns to the U.S. from Moscow to address state department.
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C.Po
Red arms
Kuban
Dnepropetrovsk
great dend
Dnieper
DELAIL
Bengal
India
Calcutta
GIBRALTAR
MADRID
VPC
LONDON
C.P
Smolensk
Korely
cay
bation
high command
STANDLEY
U.S
MOSCOW
WASHINGTON
William D. Stardley
state department
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dian
Nazis
vance
8th
Contursi
Pisa
air command
M.L.A
relligent
Colier
George Creel
Henry Wallace
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
New York Sun
Henry of Navarre
SICILY
London Daily Sketch
Maida Vale
Calabria
Edgwair road
Maids
John Stuart
Maida
Vee VeVeV
West Yorkshire
JOSEPH DYMAN
Associated Press War
ent
FLEET
de Gaulle
national committee
REACH AIR FIELD
Pinschhafen
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain
Rabaul
Bougainville
Solomons
Uncle Sam
Herald
U.S. Base
POLTAVA BREAKTHROUGH
Potava
Poltayoy
tein
en my
Zaporozhe
Chernigov
KING SILENT
Musso
South
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